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I completely sympathize with this worry, but are we certain that allowing multiple browsers on iOS would mean Chrome dominance? Part of the reason Chrome domin
by danShumway 4y ago
I completely sympathize with this worry, but are we certain that allowing multiple browsers on iOS would mean Chrome dominance?
Part of the reason Chrome dominates on Android is because it's the default browser. How many people on iPhone are we expecting will change their default browser? As far as I know, most users don't change their messenger clients on iOS.
- MBCook 4y agoThe one number I can find is that 25% of iOS users already use Chrome on iOS. So that’s 5% of all surfing. You know that would immediately become real Chrome. Once it’s possible to have real Chrome my fear is Google would start breaking things on Safari (or just refusing to fix things) to drive people to it.
- danShumway 4y agoIt's a somewhat legit concern given that people have alleged they basically did that already with Firefox. And the stats make me curious -- given that Chrome on iOS is just a wrapper around Safari, are people just switching because Google Docs tells them to, and that's enough? I'm having a hard time of thinking of a functionality reason to switch to Chrome in iOS (maybe browser/bookmark sync, I guess). I'm surprised to see a number that high.
- MBCook 4y agoI have always highly suspected that normal people don’t know/care about how Chrome on iOS works. It’s only the developer community that is so outspoken about it. Of course I have no way to prove that at all.
- dmitriid 4y ago> are we certain that allowing multiple browsers on iOS would mean Chrome dominance? Yes. From Google's apps already asking you to open links in Chrome to Google actively sabotaging competition https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686 https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686